Example sentences of "to [be] a long time " in BNC.
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1 | But all in all , it seems likely to be a long time before we reach that ‘ Utopian world of RDS ’ for all listeners in cars , at home or on foot ! |
2 | It was to be a long time before any disciples appeared to revitalize the game , and even after Busby , Shankly , Clough and others the cry still goes up ( not always reasonably ) that football is too negative . |
3 | The idea was to move away from an elitist and centralist view of things , yet it was to be a long time before such changes were implemented in the Government 's media , and it might well be argued that they have not progressed very far to this day . |
4 | As his biographer has pointed out it was to be a long time ‘ before he had an equal in the study of archaeology on a scientific basis or as an illustrator of archaeological relics ’ ( Jessup 1975 , p. 109 ) . |
5 | It was to be a long time before I slotted this experience into others to make sense of it all . |
6 | And it 's going to be a long time before it 's going to be possible , so therefore we still have to use animals , I see no way round it . |
7 | " It 's going to be a long time before we get another chance , though , is n't it though ? " |
8 | They were described as mere preparations for an Iranian final offensive , though this much-heralded event was to be a long time coming . |
9 | Because peasants had to pay back the sums of money which the government advanced on their behalf at 6 per cent interest over forty-nine years , it was to be a long time before their freedom was complete . |
10 | Although … well , it does look as though it 's going to be a long time before they can leave hospital , ’ she added sorrowfully . |
11 | Oh it , it was n't there seemed to be a long time you know before they turned one out to make , because it was a very long process rebuilding an aircraft , es especially as the situation was at Walsall . |
12 | I think that it 's a very long term thing and until the attitudes of both men and women and boys and girls at schools who come up here change , and that 's going to be a long time |